parse_fdroid_index

Introduction

A few CLIs to use the F-Droid index (available at https://f-droid.org/repo/index-v2.json).

Installation

Building from source

To build from source, install Crystal and Shards. It is convenient to install them with Mise, with one command:

mise use -g crystal

Then:

git clone https://github.com/ch1c0t/parse_fdroid_index/ && cd parse_fdroid_index && shards build --release

Which should create 3 binaries in the ./bin directory:

• json-outline
• save-metadata-from-fdroid-index
• clone-fdroid-packages-to

One way to add them to $PATH temporarily is to run export PATH=bin:$PATH.

Usage

json-outline is to outline the structure of a JSON file.

save-metadata-from-fdroid-index is to save metadata from the F-Droid index to an SQLite database.

clone-fdroid-packages-to is to clone source codes of F-Droid packages to a directory.

Each binary has a help message explaining how to use it. To access it, run a binary without arguments or with --help. For example, to get the help message for json-outline, run json-outline or json-outline --help.